Chapter 223 The People You Know Are Quite Unique

The girl recommended by the Fatty is named An Xiao.

According to Fatty, this girl also possesses abilities, and her ability sounds pretty impressive—Mental Lord.

With her current power, she can perceive the vague, shallow thoughts of everyone within a certain range—although it falls far short of true mind-reading, she can use this to sense whether people around her harbor good or bad intentions. Just based on that, it can be regarded as an excellent life-saving ability.

Moreover, besides probing, she can also interfere with or even distort others’ shallow thoughts to a certain extent. At least strategically, this ability has a high degree of expandability.

However, her own combat power isn’t very strong.

As for the research project that Fatty mentioned, An Xiao is genuinely studying it, but her motivation is purely out of curiosity.

I heard she focused on this subject during her university days, and she has some understanding of the various circumstances surrounding the “Realm of Divine Presence.” Naturally, she can guess the general development trend of the future world, so she becomes particularly curious about this process of change and, using the cheating aspect of her ability, has taken the Canglong organization as a sample for research.

Should I say she’s bold or reckless…

In any case, in her previous life, Xia Xinyan had never heard of An Xiao, but this ability, if it can grow, is likely to have the potential to climb the rankings. Even if it doesn’t, she would certainly be a well-known figure—regarding why she hadn’t been heard of before… perhaps it’s because she got herself killed.

After all, with her current abilities, if she were discovered by Canglong, she wouldn’t stand a chance to defend herself.

However, this girl seems unconcerned about such scenarios: “Don’t worry, those idiots can’t possibly discover me. I’ve almost tricked them into revealing their base’s address multiple times, and they still didn’t catch on—plus, even if they did, I could just solve the trouble with my abilities.”

Fatty shrugged at Xia Xinyan and Ling Mo: “That’s just how she is. If she really gets herself killed one day, I wouldn’t be surprised at all.”

An Xiao shot him a sidelong glance, pouting: “So what about my brother? Didn’t you say it was my brother looking for me?”

Fatty paused and countered, “If I didn’t say it was your brother looking for you, would you even talk to me?”

“So you’re tricking me?”

“As long as you get it.”

“…”

Seeing this, Ling Mo cleared his throat: “Sorry, actually it was us who asked Zhang Dari to find you. We need your help with something.”

“I know, I get it.” An Xiao waved her hand, and then curiously sized them up, “You two are pretty well-known now. I’m quite surprised you’d actively come looking for me… By the way, why doesn’t Miss Xia seek help from her family?”

“My family situation is quite special; I can’t get them involved in this matter,” Xia Xinyan casually explained.

An Xiao responded with an “oh”: “So what exactly do you want my help with?”

“Find the leader of Canglong; I want to have a talk,” Xia Xinyan said softly.

An Xiao paused: “You’re not joking, are you?”

“No.”

“Well, I can’t help with that,” An Xiao shook her head, “that organization is very exclusive and holds a lot of hostility towards outsiders who discover their existence. I’ve almost been caught a few times on my interactions with them. If you really want to find their leader, why don’t you just go to them yourself?”

“If I go to them in person, they’ll likely run away in fear.” Xia Xinyan smiled slightly, “So we need a guide to take us to their leader, preferably without them noticing us in the meantime. We can pay you for it, as long as you’re willing.”

An Xiao inexplicably shivered. After hesitating for two seconds, she couldn’t help but ask: “Can I ask why you want to find their leader?”

“Because they’ve reached out to us before, and it wouldn’t be polite not to reciprocate, right?” Xia Xinyan replied calmly.

An Xiao was taken aback.

She suddenly felt that coming to the coffee shop was a trap.

After a moment of silence, she didn’t refuse outright: “Can I think about it first?”

“Sure, we can give you a day for a response.” Xia Xinyan nodded.

“Alright, I have things to do, so I’ll be leaving for now. I’ll contact you later,” An Xiao said, finishing her coffee in one gulp, then giving Fatty the finger before striding out of there.

Fatty wiped his face and looked at the two: “I can only help you this much. I can’t get involved in what you want to do. Just a reminder—everyone is still maintaining a superficial peace right now; don’t be the first to break it. It’s not a good thing.”

“Got it, we know our limits.” Ling Mo nodded, then curiously asked, “Fatty just now said you tricked her into coming here under the name of her brother? Who is her brother?”

“Bai Yu,” Fatty rubbed his hands, “they are from a blended family, and coincidentally, An Xiao is a brother complex—should I have told you that Bai Yu often cross-dresses for no reason? That’s thanks to her.”

Xia Xinyan twitched the corner of her mouth: “…The people you know are quite unique.”

“I think so too,” Fatty nodded in agreement.

—After all, he was sitting right next to two unique individuals.

One is a gold digger, and the other reversed a loser.

It’s not just him criticizing Old Ling; compared to Miss Xia, isn’t Ling Mo just a gourd? But now he dares to face off against Xia Jincang directly, isn’t that being unique?

Ling Mo was quite curious: “Why do I see you have a pretty good relationship with that girl? Doesn’t Bai Yu have any thoughts on that?”

“Did your eye see something good about my relationship with her? If there is, it’s only a twisted fate.”

“How is it a twisted fate? How did you meet?”

“A little over a year ago, she came to the dormitory to see Bai Yu and ended up dismantling the large wooden structure I had just finished—if she weren’t a girl, I really would’ve fought her on the spot.” Fatty sighed, “Never mind, just thinking about it gives me a headache.”

Then, he downed the coffee in front of him, stood up: “I’ll be leaving too; I have to go edit some videos—sigh, I really hope one day they can create a one-to-one time dungeon, then I can be a streamer. Editing videos is exhausting…”

After he left, only Xia Xinyan and Ling Mo remained.

Ling Mo sighed, turned to look at the profile of Xia Xinyan and whispered, “Xinyan, what are you planning to do?”

“Put a collar on that dragon,” Xia Xinyan tilted her head to meet his gaze, “keeping them around is always a risk, especially since you haven’t obtained any powers yet—if possible, I wouldn’t want to take action, but… Mo Mo, I have to think of you.”

Ling Mo momentarily fell silent.

He understood this reasoning.

If he were strong enough, Xinyan wouldn’t need to provoke this trouble.

He suddenly felt somewhat useless.

“Mo Mo,” Xia Xinyan’s voice pulled him back to reality. She held his hand, looking into his eyes, and gently said, “Are you afraid of me like this?”

Her true self.

Ling Mo shook his head without hesitation: “No, I’ve said it before, no matter what you become, I will always like you.”

As he said this, he also held her hand tightly: “I’m sorry… I’ll work hard to catch up.”

No matter what, he didn’t want to fall behind.